George Beadle, an Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century

By Paul Berg

Book Overview

George Beadle was a towering scientific figure whose work from the 1930s to 1960 marked the transition from classical genetics to the molecular era. Among other distinctions, he made the pivotal, Nobel Prize-winning discovery with Edward Tatum that the role of genes is to specify proteins. From 1946 to 1960 he led the Caltech Biology Division, rebuilding it to a powerhouse in molecular biology, and afterwards became a successful President of the University of Chicago. This is the first biography of a giant of genetics, written by two of the field's most distinguished contributors, Paul Berg and Maxine Singer.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879696885
• ISBN13: 9780879696887
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"